Search results

Awesome! "kid-oriented, bubblegum-y blueberry fragrance" is exactly what I'm trying to avoid, so I'll definitely give this one a try. Thanks for your response!

Has anyone used a blueberry fragrance that came out nicely in soaps? I have one that I got somewhere on etsy, but it's sickeningly sweet. I have some blueberry seeds that I want to add to some soap along with blueberry fragrance.

Thanks, y'all. :O)

Well, they're not my very first soaps ... I did make a batch of olive oil soap that turned out to be nice soap but looks ugly. These bars are what I made after that first one. The brown soap is beer soap colored with cocoa, and it smells cocoa-y, also. The suds look like chocolate milk...

I recently made my first two batches of soap, both of which seem to have turned out pretty well. Next, I plan to make some salt bars. I want to try infusing some olive oil or grapeseed oil with herbs from my garden to add fragrance to the salt bars. If I follow a recipe that uses only coconut...

The oil was around 160 degrees F. I didn't expect it to heat up as quickly as it did, and then I wasn't patient enough to let it cool down. Maybe that caused it to have lumps in it, and then the different colors I see in the soap are because of those lumps? I feel like it was a combination of...

Laurie, thanks for the suggestion. I don't think this was the problem, though, because the soap does not have a darker ring in the middle. It just looks more like it's marbled. Baking nana, I hope your soap turns out well. :O) I used a bottle of olive oil that just says pure olive oil...

I recently made my first batch of soap. It's made with just olive oil (and I used green tea for the water, and added tea tree oil before putting it in the mold), but it has some problems. When I mixed the lye solution into the oils, I think the oils were way too hot. Some clumps formed, but...